Q: Where do you get your facts? Do you watch television? Do you read books?A: I get most of them from the Internet. I constantly sit at my computer. From the DER SPIEGEL interview with Moammar Quadafi. No, the reporter did not ask the logical followup: Mac, or PC?
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4/22/2010: The ODE Editors manage to combine most current UO issues into one opinion: … The library parking lot is central to preserving the divide between those who work and those who drink. On any given night, good, clean, sober students exiting Knight Library in the wee hours of the…
4/18/2010: If you got an email from the Senate Executive Committee last week on the union poll, please fill it out. (The link is specific to your email address, so I can’t post it here.) I have no association with this poll but I think it is important to understand…
comments were broken for a few days – seem to be working now
4/10/2010: The Oregonian’s readers are skeptical: Just how long does a new college president get to bear no responsibility for the continuance of bad oral contracts, an interim athletic director to mislead the public as to the amount involved and a general counsel to commit an oral agreement to written…
3/16/2010: If anyone learns anything interesting from these sessions, please post a comment or send an email to [email protected]. I can’t make them. I remember Frohnmayer used to hold these regularly, until the questions got too pointed. Good morning, This is a reminder that today President Lariviere is holding two…
3/4/2010: Betsy Hammond of the Oregonian reports: Oregon is moving its 10th-grade tests in reading, writing, math and science to the 11th grade, saying many students need another year of high school to learn the skills covered on the tests. …. When Oregon sophomores take the tests, a lot of…
2/26/2010: In breaking news, we’ve now obtained summary data on UO’s cheese and egg expenditures. But many questions remain. Tillamook Cheddar? Oregonzola? Individually wrapped slices of processed american? President Lariviere is still refusing to tell the faculty. This stinks. And why are top UO administrators – you know who you…
2/25/2010: Not much worth posting lately. That’s a good thing. Also good, the legislature is letting us sell bonds for a new 451 bed dorm “residence hall”. What do they call them at Hogwarts? Senate funds University of Oregon residence hall — Daily Journal of Commerce (The first step toward…
2/15/2010: Rebecca Woolington of the RG has a really nice story about visits to UO and LCC this week by Jessie Jackson, Seymour Hersh, and Tom Hayden. Hersh of course is the guy who exposed My Lai and then Abhu Ghraib. Jackson has a much more mixed legacy, and Hayden…
Elissa Harrington from KVAL reports that Amber Garrison, UO Director of Commencement, has decided students will wear green colored biodegradable gowns at graduation this year. Rumor has it that they are made from hemp, the miracle fiber byproduct of Oregon’s second largest industry. To honor the baby boomer parents who…
It’s 6:15 PM Saturday. I’m working in my office on a paper. I just opened a beer. Am I breaking any laws or OARs? (And in the comments, a quick answer – and it’s the one I was looking for!)
1/28/2010: Given all the recent pepper spray abuses in Eugene, I’m tempted to say something sarcastic about this Oregonian story: A Portland police officer accidentally used pepper spray instead of a fire extinguisher on a man who lit himself on fire downtown near a fur store Wednesday. But actually it…
1/25/2010: This is old news nationally, I hadn’t seen the Oregon breakdown. From Jeff Manning in the Oregonian: Oregonians earning at the 50th percentile saw their inflation-adjusted wages grow 4.5 percent from $31,866 in 1990 to peak of $33,318 in 2004. The group’s income has fallen every year since then,…
1/22/2010: Latest from Lindholm: